Memorandum

ACTIVITY 1

In this module we shall be looking at how social dances reflect their time. The educator must guide the learners through the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s, and reflect and compare the dance styles, music and fashion and how these aspects have changed through the decades.

Exercise 1: the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s

Divide the class up into groups.

Assign different decades to the groups.

Have the groups research and deliver a presentation of their assigned era to the class.

Their presentation should include a demonstration of the dance style, pictures, oral presentation, video, music, fashion, etc.

The 50’s

Background

History

General Eisenhower becomes the American President.

A fish is caught off the coast of Madagascar and identified as a prehistoric coelacanth.

Stalin dies in Russia in the same year as the Russians explode the hydrogen bomb.

Edmund Hillary from New Zealand climbed to the top of Mount Everest.

Disneyland opened in California.

The computer entered the workplace for the first time.

The Warsaw Pact forms all Eastern Block nations into a military alliance.

Roll on deodorants are introduced in America.

Laika, a dog from Russia, was the first Earth creature to live – and die – in space.

All About Eve, An American in Paris, From Here to Eternity, On The Waterfront, East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, Oklahoma!, Giant, The King and I, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, Gigi, Ben Hur, Some Like It Hot, Pillow Talk,

Good Golly Miss Molly, Let’s Twist Again, If I had A Hammer, Rock Around the Clock, Great Balls of Fire, Louie Louie, Tutti Frutti, Be Bop a Lula, La Bamba, Jailhouse Rock, That’s All Right Mama, Speedy Gonzales

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Tarell

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Damian

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Tarell

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